Real Madrid makes its League debut tonight at San Mamés against Athletic with Andréi Lunin in goal and ten others. With Real Madrid in a state of shock due to the injury to Thibaut Courtois, who will miss a large part of the season due to an injury to the cruciate ligament in his left knee, Carlo Ancelotti made a close defense of the Ukrainian goalkeeper, regular substitute for the Belgian and whom Madrid wanted to transfer without success this summer.
For Ancelotti, “Madrid has all the confidence in the world in Lunin, and if we sign a goalkeeper it will be to make a number, because the season is very long and the other goalkeepers are very young, but the starter will continue to be Lunin. He just lacks experience and will take it on a match basis, ”he said.
Lunin, 24, signed for Madrid in 2018. He spent three seasons on loan at Leganés, Valladolid and Oviedo. He has been in Madrid for three years and has not just convinced.
Madrid has been testing the market since it learned of its goalkeeper’s injury. The one they like the most is the Moroccan from Sevilla, Bono, but the whites have encountered a series of obstacles that leave the transfer in doubt. The goalkeeper is already 32 years old (one more than Courtois) and his termination clause is 50 million. Sevilla could agree to let him go for an amount between 20 and 30 million, but Madrid still thinks it’s a lot for someone who will take the role of substitute in April.
In addition, there is another additional problem. Bono plans to play the Africa Cup in January and could miss up to 13 official matches. He would no longer be there for the last day of the first round and he would also miss the Spanish Super Cup and several Copa del Rey qualifiers.
In this sense, Madrid would be more for bringing someone with the letter of freedom and with a European passport. The problem is that the market does not give much of itself. David de Gea would be available. In fact, he was about to sign for the Whites in the summer of 2015 and if he didn’t it was because the transfer was late by a few minutes. Eight years later, the Toledo no longer likes so much.
Madrid is also interested in a former youth player, David Soria, but Getafe does not drop the termination clause, which is at 27 million.
Thus, to Bilbao and together with Andréi Lunin travel Lucas Cañizares, the son of Santi Cañizares, who is the second goalkeeper for Castilla and a youth player, Fran González, 17 years old. Castilla’s first goalkeeper, Mario de Luis, is injured. And the one who until a few days ago was the third goalkeeper of the first team, Luis López, was transferred to Mirandés.
